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| 2 | [[caption-width-right:350:Have you ever felt your own Cosmo?]] |
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| 4 | An entry in the ''Franchise/SaintSeiya'' franchise, which aired from April 1st, 2012 to March 30th, 2014. It follows a new generation of Saints, and the main character is Pegasus Kouga, who seems to be very much like [[{{Determinator}} Seiya]] in terms of personality. Seiya himself also appears as a Gold Saint. Saori Kido is still present, as the goddess Athena; she also raised Kouga as a parent. She is kidnapped by the god Mars, leaving Kouga and his fellow Saints to save her. Other Saints include: Aquila Yuna, Lionet Souma, Dragon Ryuhou, Orion Eden and Wolf Haruto. |
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| 6 | The production staff is composed of big names such as Yoshihiko Umakoshi (character designer of ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'', ''Anime/CasshernSins'' and ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''), Shigeyasu Yamauchi (director of the original series), and others. |
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| 8 | Following the relative success of ''Saint Seiya: Sanctuary Battle'', Namco Bandai announced that a game based on the show called ''Saint Seiya Omega: Ultimate Cosmo'' for the Platform/PlayStationPortable. It was released on November 2012, and featured many of the characters from the anime and an original story. You can see a trailer [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAgClK3xy0g here]]. |
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| 10 | !!''Saint Seiya Omega'' provides examples of: |
| 11 | * ActionGirl: Have the most number of these, among all the spin-offs, and most of them are as competent as men are. Among the Bronzes there are Aquila Yuna, who is the most badass Bronze, Shaina is still around, among the Gold Saints (yes, you heard that right, there are female Gold Saints in this spin-off) there are Gemini Paradox [[spoiler: and her twin sister Gemini Integra. [[BackUpTwin They are Gemini]], what do you expect? ]] and Scorpio [[spoiler: Sonia, previously Hornet Sonia]], then each season's EliteFour at least have one female member (The Martians have Diana and the Pallasites have Gallia), and in season 2, Saori does engage in actual combat with Pallas. A satisfying spin-off for people who have been eager to see women as competent fighters in Saint Seiya franchise (the other work in the franchise to do this is ''Manga/SaintSeiyaSaintiaSho'') |
| 12 | * AllPartOfTheShow: In episode 16, the Saints fight against enemies in front of a crowd of tourists, who're convinced it's just a show. |
| 13 | * AllYourPowersCombined: [[spoiler:The Omega is this, as it requires Saints to unite their Cosmos into one.]] |
| 14 | * AlternateContinuity: Toei immediately placed ''Omega'' as from outside Kurumada's canon, despite being set 25 years after the events from the first series. |
| 15 | * AnimationBump: Overall, the series' animation quality is what you would expect from a Toei Sunday morning anime aimed at little kids ([[LimitedAnimation not very impressive]]). However, the episodes animated by Yoshihiko Umakoshi are visually stunning. |
| 16 | * AnimeThemeSong: A new version of "Pegasus Fantasy" is the first of ''Omega'''s [=OPs=]. This followed by three new songs: "Next Generation", "Saint Evolution", and "Flashing Strings" (the last of which is also the only to not be an ExpositoryThemeTune). |
| 17 | * ArtifactOfDeath: It's said the Equuleus Cloth grants great powers to its wearers, but also curses them to die on the battlefield. |
| 18 | * ArtisticAge: Creating a contrast with the original series where young characters looked much older, in here the very same characters aged, but now look young instead. |
| 19 | * ArtisticLicenseGeography: The Palaestra, which is presumably somewhere in either Europe or Japan, is depicted as being one or two days' journey from Saori's house. From there, the kids go to the site of the Twelve Temples in Greece, then a snowy town that's implied to be in Eastern Europe, then a desert landscape that's clearly made to represent Arabia or Central Asia. They're then in a jungle that might be in Vietnam or Thailand, and then in a thriving tourism coastal city that is probably in the Pacific Ocean, and then in a very dry canyon that's suspiciously like the Grand Canyon. After that they make it to Souma's hometown, which, in terms of architecture and the appearance of locals, is most likely Mexico. And then they go to Ryuuhou's place that is explicitly in the rustic part of China, followed by going to the Thunder Ruins that's located deep in a taiga forest, probably in Southern Russia. Save for a short trip in a motor boat to cross an indeterminate amount of water, this is ''all on foot.'' |
| 20 | * ArtisticLicenseSpace: Mars is depicted as about the same size as the moon. However, in reality, Mars is about twice the size as the moon - half the size of the Earth. |
| 21 | * {{Astrologer}}: Some saints understandably study astrology, given it influences all saints. Yuna in particular is a learned one. Even more for [[spoiler:Gemini Paradox, she can read the stars and show to an opponent the different possibilities for the future with the Crossroads Mirage technique. Her sister Gemini Integra says she can read the stars in the same way]]. |
| 22 | * BarehandedBladeBlock: The second season pits the unarmed Saints against the weapon-using Pallasites. Needless to say, this happens a lot. |
| 23 | * BattleAura: Cosmo. |
| 24 | ** Obviously ColourCodedForYourConvenience; mostly in accordance to [[ColorCodedElements Element]], but Yuna's is Pink for [[PinkMeansFeminine obvious reasons]]. |
| 25 | * BecauseDestinySaysSo: In a flashback in episode 16, Kouga asks Saori why he has to become a Saint. This is her response. |
| 26 | ** Genbu tells the Saints [[spoiler:not to cry about his death]], as it was the fate written by the stars. |
| 27 | * BerserkButton: Mars remained calm as he beat his opponent until Seiya arrived, causing Mars to promptly lose it. |
| 28 | ** As of episode 78, Seiya of all people reveals a massive one when Chakram Europa openly mocks and insults Athena in front of the main cast. To put it in perspective, he stood there quietly while the cast reacted to the taunts. Then Europa asks if Athena is an idiot. Cue cosmo-powered battle cry and attempted murder via Atomic Thunderbolt. The fandom's reaction was a sight to behold. |
| 29 | * BestHerToBedHer: |
| 30 | ** A variant with the permanently-masked female Saints. Traditionally, if they show their faces to someone they must (a) fall in love with them, or (b) kill them. Now consider the amount of ClothingDamage in a fight between Cloth-wearers and... well, you can see where we're going with this. Yuna deconstructs and eventually defies this - she's ''not happy'' about the tradition, and tends to fight at a handicap to prevent her mask from getting broken. Eventually (with a bit of encouragement from Kouga) she decides that it just isn't worth the effort, lets her mask get wrecked to win a fight, and gives tradition a big middle finger from then onwards. There's a reason she's bare-faced in the picture above. |
| 31 | ** It's played straight in the original series with [[spoiler:Shaina]] (at least to the extent that she does fall in love with [[spoiler:Seiya]] when he destroys her mask, but it seems to be subverted (or just averted) in all occasions in Omega. As explained above, Yuna just refuses the tradition. [[spoiler:Gemini Paradox]] doesn't use the mask at all and says she'll just love [[spoiler:or kill, when in "evil" mode]] anyone who sees her. [[spoiler:Gemini Integra]] gets her mask destroyed by [[spoiler:Paradox]] but of course the trope is just averted because of the [[spoiler:[[BrotherSisterIncest Sister-Sister]] in the love case, and because they were already trying to kill each other before this happens. They end up loving each other as sisters in the end but for totally different reasons.]] |
| 32 | * BigBad: Mars. Unless there's some weird gambits like in ''Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas''. |
| 33 | ** There were. [[spoiler:Medea is the real BigBad, Mars was just an UnwittingPawn on her plans.]] |
| 34 | ** The second season plays up Pallas as the new BigBad. [[spoiler:She's merely a pawn as her Class-1 Pallasites all follow orders from Saturn.]] |
| 35 | * BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: Seiya returns to save Kouga from Mars at the end of episode 10.]] |
| 36 | ** [[spoiler: Shun saves Kouga from Hound Miguel.]] |
| 37 | ** [[spoiler: Seiya saves Yuna and the other Saints from Koga, possessed by Abzu.]] |
| 38 | ** [[spoiler: Koga saves the world from Abzu.]] |
| 39 | * BigGood: Well, Athena herself is a given, as usual within the franchise. However this series also has the main five Bronze Saints from the classic series — now known as the Legendary Saints — featuring as this trope to a lesser degree than her. Particularly Seiya, as he has become the most powerful Saint and the paragon of righteousness among Athena's Saints (like his Sagittarius predecessor Aiolos). |
| 40 | * BlindObedience: On the part of all of Mars' underlings, notably Leo Mycenae and Eden. Though the latter [[spoiler: has trouble reconciling Mars' cruelty to Aria with his obedience]]. |
| 41 | * BreakingSpeech: Along with a side-order of LotusEaterMachine, this is the standard defence mechanism for the Darkness Ruins. In a darkly amusing subversion, though, it's so horrified/disgusted/outraged by Aria's [[ElementalRockPaperScissors powerful Light cosmo]] that it doesn't bother with either, and just skips straight to insulting her. |
| 42 | * ButtMonkey: Hydra Ichi. A veteran from the original series, never graduating from Academy and generally gets into way too much misfortune for laughs. Even Kouga, a total newbie, makes fun of him and didn't take his seniority so seriously. |
| 43 | * CallBack: Episode 19 is a HUGE one to the original series: the heroes go tackle the Water Temple, and it is guarded by Perseus Mirfak, successor to Perseus Algol, one of Shiryu's strongest enemies and wielder of the Medusa Shield. Just like his predecessor, Mirfak [[TakenForGranite petrifies]] the heroes and it is up to the Dragon Saint to save them. |
| 44 | * CanonImmigrant: The fact Athena Saints can be promoted to higher-ranking cloths was introduced in ''[[Manga/SaintSeiyaNextDimension Next Dimension]]'', long after the original series in which this subject was never touched upon, so it seemed a Gold Saint was born to be one and a Bronze Saint could only reach this far, if they weren't lucky enough to have Gold Saints as masters who could lent them the cloths to vanquish evil. |
| 45 | * CastFullOfPrettyBoys: Of course. For one thing, Kouga is quite a bit bishier than Seiya and Tenma. And for being Shiryuu's son, Ryuhou got the bishie look of ''[[DudeLooksLikeALady Shun]]''... |
| 46 | * CelebrityImpersonator: [[spoiler:Aria, who is presented as Athena]] |
| 47 | * ChildSoldier: The main characters' ages are between 13-15 years old. |
| 48 | * ClothingDamage: Played for drama rather than fanservice. Your Cloth getting damaged is a sure sign that a fight isn't going well for you, and overlaps with WreckedWeapon. |
| 49 | * CooldownHug: Several examples: |
| 50 | ** In the first season, Yuna helps Kouga get his Darkness Cosmo under control this way no less than three times. ShipTease? What ShipTease? |
| 51 | ** In a rare villainous example, the child-goddess Pallas's ParentalSubstitute Titan does this to calm her down when she throws a potentially city-demolishing tantrum, serving as yet another sign that he's BecomingTheMask. |
| 52 | * CosmicKeystone: The Elemental Ruins are inversion. They must be destroyed, lest they ruin the Earth. They do left small intricately-shaped crystal trinkets of the appropriate element after they are gone. Someone in Creator/ToeiAnimation must be a [[SameStoryDifferentNames hardcore]] ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyI'' fan. |
| 53 | * CrossoverCosmology: The Greek gods are real, and apparently so is [[spoiler:the Hebrew {{God}}]], which is required by Mars' plan to re-create [[spoiler:the Tower of Babel and charging it up with loads of Cosmo from all 7 elements]]. And then [[spoiler:the ''real'' big bad turns out to be Abzu, who is basically a Titan from Sumerian pantheon]]. |
| 54 | * CurbStompBattle: Lots, mostly due to the writers kicking the smouldering wreckage of the SortingAlgorithmOfEvil out the door whilst laughing madly. |
| 55 | ** Eden's first battle during the [[TournamentArc Saint Fight]] pitted him against an experienced foe who had the advantage in ElementalRockPaperScissors (wind over thunder). The match lasted five seconds - one second for Eden to attack, four for his opponent to hit the ground. |
| 56 | ** A minor one occurs in the next episode when Yuna obliterates her enemy with much ease (not as extreme as Eden's, but still counts), compared to the previous episode whereas Souma received quite a beating despite winning (off screen), and Kouga had to get himself beat up a lot before winning. |
| 57 | ** [[spoiler: The [[FaceHeelTurn director of Palaestra]] delivered a brutal to Koga after he discovered that the Athena that is in the Sanctuary is a fake]] |
| 58 | ** Episode 10 features the granddaddy of all Curb-Stomp Battles, with a side-order of NoHoldsBarredBeatdown. Team Kouga never stood a chance. And then Mars decides that he wants to finish Kouga off himself. [[spoiler: It's only Seiya in all his Gold Saint glory that saves him.]] |
| 59 | ** Episode 11 has Yuna's "fight" against Mars's daughter, Sonia. Seconds after it starts, she's flat on her back with a CombatStiletto on her throat. Happily, DaddysLittleVillain had other appointments to keep. |
| 60 | ** Episode 18: Souma fights Sonia and the fight is dead even, with Souma's [[UnstoppableRage rage]] giving his Cosmo enough of a boost to go head to head with her. However, Kouga eventually calms Souma down by reminding him [[ThePowerOfLove where a Saint's true power springs from]]. Cue '''TranquilFury''' and Souma WIPING THE FLOOR with Sonia, who runs away to save her butt. |
| 61 | ** Eden regains his crown in episode 20 where he fights Kouga and Yuna in order to get Aria back.[[spoiler: They didn't stand a chance]]. |
| 62 | ** Harbinger delivers this one spectacularly in his first appearance. |
| 63 | ** Every fight with a Class 1 Pallasite seems to have to be this as a requirement. The only one that managed to be evenly matched was Aegeon vs Ikki. |
| 64 | * DamselInDistress: Saori[=/=]Athena, as per tradition, is kidnapped by the latest villain so the saints can stage a RescueArc for the latest adventure. And [[spoiler: Aria, her impersonator]]. |
| 65 | * DangerousForbiddenTechnique: The Athena Exclamation. It takes [[CombinationAttack three Gold Saints to cast]], and creates an explosion similar to the Big Bang. Due to its destructive power, Athena forbade its use centuries ago, and all Saints who perform it are branded as traitors. [[spoiler: This doesn't stop Kiki, Shiryu and Fudou from using it when they realize it's the only option against Hyperion]]. |
| 66 | * DarkIsEvil: Darkness cosmo is ALWAYS a Bad Thingâ„¢. [[spoiler: Except for Koga, who even after having his darkness cosmo removed by Abzu is still considered a child of darkness by Abzu.]] |
| 67 | * ADayInTheLimelight: Episode 14 for Yuna, [[spoiler: Episode 18 for Souma and Episode 19 for Ryuho.]] |
| 68 | * DealWithTheDevil: How Mars rose to power. An unspecified catastrophe ([[BatmanGambit which was probably his fault]]) caused the loss of many of Athena's Gold Saints, forcing the Sanctuary to rely upon him to shore up their power vacuum and keep the world safe. Predictably, it didn't end well. |
| 69 | ** It's eventually revealed the deal [[spoiler: was signed by Medea when she summoned Abzu, the God of Darkness, to help her and Mars in their war against Athena.]] |
| 70 | * DefiantStoneThrow: A village kid against [[spoiler:Hydra/Hydrus Ichi]] when he betrays the heroes. He even smugly blocks the rocks and tells him to go home. |
| 71 | * DePower: The curse Mars placed on Athena, it keeps her from using her Cosmo, if she tries to force it out the curse's ill effects will engulf her; also her cloth is nowhere to be seen. |
| 72 | ** The very same curse does this to most of the main cast of the original series, only in their cases they can still technically burn their cosmo. It just means that doing so will eventually kill them. [[spoiler: The end of the first season also has everyone who was cursed this way returned to normal.]] |
| 73 | * DesignatedGirlFight: |
| 74 | ** Averted. There are fights between heroines and villainesses, but the battles are too often mixed-gender to really call them 'designated'. In particular, [[ActionGirl Yuna]] has more than a fair share of victories against male villains under her belt, whilst Souma's [[YouKilledMyFather personal grudge]] against [[DarkActionGirl Sonia]] makes ''him'' her most frequent opponent. |
| 75 | ** The Gold Saint arc: [[spoiler:Ryuho and Souma fight, respectively, the females Gemini and Scorpio, while Yuna fights the male Cancer.]] |
| 76 | ** When fighting against the [[spoiler: Four Heavenly Kings of Mars]], Yuna does not fight against the only girl of the group, or at all really. |
| 77 | * DesignatedVictim: Athena has been kidnapped yet again. |
| 78 | * {{Determinator}}: |
| 79 | ** Kouga is the only saint able to stand up to [[spoiler: a certain Gold Saint named Mycenae who's gone through a FaceHeelTurn]], Kouga musters up his Light element, he's the only one left standing, and it doesn't look like he's going to go down...! Only for Mars to show up, say that he's too dangerous, and soundly beat him to a pulp. |
| 80 | ** It later comes back during his fight against Harbinger, where the Taurus Gold Saint states that he personally broke nearly all of Kouga's bones, but Kouga keeps on going. Eventually Harbinger lets him go, after being tired from beating Kouga too much. This was only the second temple, meaning for the rest of the arc Kouga was fighting with nearly his entire skeleton broken. |
| 81 | * DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: |
| 82 | ** The Silver Saint Musca Fly, a creepy old man who's ''way'' too into stealing children's Cloths. The fact that there are perfectly non-sexual (if definitely not moral) reasons for doing so, since Mars has put out a bounty on the things, in no way prevents him from coming across as a walking AMBER Alert. |
| 83 | ** The way Kiki repairs Kouga's cloth, it looks like he's grabbing his crotch. {{Squick}}. Thankfully, he doesn't repeat this with the other bronze saints (which includes the ActionGirl Yuna). |
| 84 | * DuelingMessiahs: A case of ''two'' Messiah's and one DarkMessiah. Athena wants to protect the world from evil forces, and Mars wants to destroy, remake, and refine it because his StartOfDarkness (and DarkIsEvil based powers) influenced him to think only the strong should rule in order to stop senseless suffering. Caught between them is Aria, who would ''like'' to be like Athena, but Mars is using her as a figurehead to fool others and enact his evil plan. |
| 85 | * EasilyForgiven: The saints who sided Mars during the first season are shown on season two, during Athena's convocation, probably because Saori forgiven them. While beings like Harbinger and Fudo are shown have their reasons, the silver saints who were quite vicious and antagonist by the previous arc are simply there and doesn't have much recognizement. |
| 86 | * ElementalRockPaperScissors: There are five basic elements that forms a circle, each one having the edge over the other: Fire -> Wind -> Thunder -> Earth -> Water -> Fire; aside from those there are singular special elements: Light and Darkness, of which Light beats Darkness, and Darkness beats everything else. The supreme rule in Saint combat still prevails though, whoever burns more of their Cosmo will win regardless of element, meaning that yes, regular Saints do still have a chance against Darkness-users if they're skilled/powerful enough. |
| 87 | * EvilCounterpart: Pallas's Pallasites are organized quite similarly to Athena's Saints, with Level-1 Pallasites being their answer to Gold Saints, Level-2 being Silver, Level-3 being Bronze, and Level-4 being Steel. Unfortunately for the good guys, they're quite a bit more powerful than their opposite numbers, with a Level-3 being able to give a Silver Saint a run for their money, and [[spoiler:a Level-1's borrowed weapon alone being enough to give its wielder a lethal advantage over one of the most powerful Gold Saints]]. |
| 88 | * ExpositoryHairstyleChange: In season 2, Shunrei is shown to have cut her hair at some point while her son was out in the battle against Mars' forces. |
| 89 | * {{Expy}}: Kouga is Seiya, Ryuhou is both his father and Shun, Yuna has elements of Hyoga (ditto for her master, Pavlin, and Camus), Marin and Yuzuriha, Souma is a mellowed out Jabu, and Eden is Ikki. |
| 90 | * ExpyCoexistence: Many a Bronze Saint of the current generation coexists with Seiya and the other classic Bronze Saints, e.g. Souma and Jabu, Eden and Ikki. |
| 91 | * FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:The Gold Saints, with the exception of [[ChekhovMIA Seiya]], are now Mars's elite guard. [[TheJuggernaut This is a bad thing.]] It turns out a few of the gold saints are still on Athena's side.]] |
| 92 | ** Mentioned by [[spoiler:Sonia as the Gold Cloths themselves have turned on Athena as well, which is why those who are loyal to Mars are able to wear them]]. Naturally there are [[spoiler:exceptions to this that include Aries Kiki and [[TheReveal LIBRA]] {{G|oodAllAlong}}ENBU]]. |
| 93 | * FamedInStory: The five heroes from the original series are this, being called the legendary saints. It seems that at some point they had all become Gold Saints between the original series and Omega. [[note]] only Sagittarius Seiya [[spoiler:and Libra Shiryu]] are gold saints. The others remain in the bronze class. ''[[BadassCrew Not that doesn't stop or slow them the slightest anyways...]]'' [[/note]] |
| 94 | * TheFellowshipHasEnded: The Bronze Saints disband after each season. |
| 95 | ** After the first season, Kouga and Ryuho [[spoiler:go back to their respective homes]], Souma [[spoiler:becomes a teacher at the Palaestra]], Yuna [[spoiler:joins the efforts to rebuild her DoomedHometown]], Haruto [[spoiler: starts a new life as a rock singer]] and Eden [[spoiler: infiltrates the Pallasites to learn more about them]]. |
| 96 | ** At the end of the second season, [[spoiler:Kouga and Eden set out on a journey to learn more about the world, while the others presumably stay at the Sanctuary.]] |
| 97 | * {{Foreshadowing}}: Medea constantly mentions that if their plans succeed, [[spoiler: that person will remain lost in the darkness forever.]] It turns out she was talking about [[spoiler: Seiya, who was being held prisoner within Mars's darkness.]] |
| 98 | ** When Aegir tells the heroes about the holy weapons wielded by the Class-1 Pallasites, five swords are shown despite being only four known First Class Pallasites. [[spoiler:The fifth sword is the Eternal Dance, wielded by Pallas. It's also revealed that Saturn split his own weapon in five to make all of them.]] |
| 99 | ** The Pallasites are named after [[spoiler:Saturn's moons]]. Their armors are called [[spoiler:"Chronotectors"]]. Also, they can [[spoiler:stop time to normal humans with low/no cosmo]]. Later, the castle that is pretty much the pallasites' fortress is sealed with [[spoiler:"the gate of time"]]. Pallas is the [[spoiler:Goddess of Love]]. So what does all this babble and theme of [[spoiler:time]] have to do with Pallas? [[spoiler:Nothing, of course. Those were Saturn's forces all along]]. |
| 100 | * FourIsDeath: [[spoiler: There are two groups amongst the antagonists who fit this. The Four Heavenly Kings of Mars from the first season and the Four Heavenly King Class-1 Pallasites in the second season.]] |
| 101 | * GetAholdOfYourselfMan: Yuna gives an EPIC concussive pep-talk to Kouga [[spoiler:after Eden defeats him and takes back Aria]]. |
| 102 | * GiveHimANormalLife: Saori raised Kouga outside the Sanctuary, not revealing that she is Athena. She stated that she wanted to give him a normal life, but still allowed him to take training to be a Saint under Shaina's guidance so that he would able to protect those who he loves. |
| 103 | * GodOfEvil: [[spoiler: Abzu, the God of darkness, who possesses Koga as soon as they finally manage to find Saori!Athena.]] |
| 104 | * HandicappedBadass: [[spoiler:Shiryu may have lost his five senses and is being consumed due to Mars' curse, but his Cosmo is still strong enough to ''force a [[LightningBruiser GOLD SAINT]]'' into retreat.]] |
| 105 | * HandWave: In episode 68, the gang comes across some civilians who were not turned to stone by Pallas's curse because they have naturally strong cosmos. It simply serves as an explanation as to why Koga is not suspicious when he comes across Pallas running through the streets of the city. About the most plot relevant event it leads to is the introduction of the Equuleus Saint. Celeris, a citizen of Pallasvelda with a strong Cosmo, impressed the dying Equuleus Saint who gave him his cloth. Celeris then gave the cloth to Subaru, making him a real Bronze Saint, after having been impressed by the boy's bravery. |
| 106 | * HenshinHero: The Saints are now this due to the cloths apparently losing the physical sense (no stand-by form) and instead becoming more versatile spandex-looking things. |
| 107 | * HeroicSacrifice: Seiya, supposedly, gave up on his life to save Athena and Kouga from Mars. [[spoiler:[[HesBack It didn't stick.]]]] |
| 108 | ** The second season absolutely loves this trope. [[spoiler:Genbu, Ikki, Shiryu, Kiki and Fudo all died in order to stop the Pallasites, and it's likely Paradox died as well.]] |
| 109 | * HowDoIShotWeb: Kouga couldn't use his Cosmo until Souma taught him how to. |
| 110 | * HumanResources: Mars's EvilPlan requires him to harvest Cosmo from Saints on an industrial scale, slowly killing them in the process. [[spoiler:This is why he took over the [[SuperheroSchool Palaestra]] - it's basically a giant Cosmo farm.]] |
| 111 | * IKnowYoureInThereSomewhereFight: [[spoiler:Episodes 49 and 50 feature this, with the Bronze Saints, Seiya and Saori trying to reach Kouga after he's been possesed by Abzu.]] |
| 112 | * ISurrenderSuckers: Geki pretends to bow down to Mars, only to headbutt a Martian in the stomach. |
| 113 | * InfinityPlusOneElement: Light and Dark, though they have more of an emphasis on the 'Plus One' than the 'Infinity'. The reason being that despite their advantages the above mentioned "whoever's cosmo burns brightest wins" still applies. However to date (ep 8) both elements are incredibly rare among saints, and of the known Light element users two are deific [[spoiler:the real and 'fake' Athena]], one is [[spoiler: a reincarntion of one of the five Wisdom Kings and a Gold Saint]], Seiya, and the other is the massively gifted Kouga. There does however seem to be a bus load of low level dark element users among the Martian {{Mook}}s. The advantages of these elements are that they seem to be NonElemental in regards to the standard 5 (but directly counter each other). Dark also seems able to cause a [[FieldPowerEffect Field Power Drain]] to non-dark users. |
| 114 | * InstrumentalThemeTune: Pegasus Fantasy still is going strong. |
| 115 | ** ThemeMusicPowerUp: and of course it begins playing where it is needed the most. |
| 116 | * InTheBack: [[spoiler:How Sonia killed Southern Cross Kazuma. Given that she was a ChildSoldier and he was an experienced Silver Saint, they were both as surprised as each other.]] |
| 117 | ** [[spoiler: This is also how Subaru's friend Elna gets killed. Turning his back to the knife-wielding bad guy was not the best idea.]] |
| 118 | * JapaneseBeetleBrothers: Two brother Martians based on the kabuto and kuwagata beetles show up in episode 9. |
| 119 | * TheJuggernaut: If a Gold Saint's coming your way, you don't fight. You run, and you pray [[LightningBruiser they won't catch up with you]]. |
| 120 | * KillTheCutie: A particularly brutal example in episode 27. [[spoiler:Building up Aria for nearly 20 episodes just to ultimately give her the most violent death in the show so far... too heavy.]] |
| 121 | * LadyAndKnight: Aria and Kouga in the first season, Saori and Seiya in the second. |
| 122 | ** Also Pallas and Titan. |
| 123 | * LegacyCharacter: The Dragon Cloth has been passed through close peers for three generations: Dohko[[note]]240 years ago before he became the Libra Saint, seen in ''Next Dimension'' and data books[[/note]] (Master) to Shiryu (Disciple), later Shiryu ([[spoiler:Father]]) to Ryuuhou ([[spoiler:Son]]). |
| 124 | * LegendaryInTheSequel: Seiya, Shun, Shiryu, Hyoga and Ikki are regarded as living legends in ''Omega'', and every saint worth their salt knows about them and respects them. |
| 125 | * LetsSplitUpGang: Done in the second season [[spoiler: so that they can find the path in Pallas castle that leads to Pallas. Each path being named after worlds from Myth/NorseMythology and the Saints split up into groups of two-four, while Integra and Ikki go off on their own.]] |
| 126 | * LightIsGood: So far, Light Cosmo have been showed as a good force, opposed to [[DarkIsEvil Darkness Cosmo.]] |
| 127 | * LighterAndSofter |
| 128 | ** Until episode 27, which is definitely more hardcore and depressing than anything in the original work. |
| 129 | *** The entirety of the Gold Saint arc sends the series into DarkerAndEdgier levels. |
| 130 | * LivingMacGuffin: The Tower of Babel Arc wouldn't be much different if Aria were an inanimate object... |
| 131 | * LocationThemeNaming: The first two Gold Saints who appeared, not including Seiya, were named after locations in Ancient Greece. |
| 132 | * LosingTheTeamSpirit: In a blatant violation of {{Shonen|Demographic}} {{True Companions}}hip, Souma left the party for his vendetta against Sonia ([[AesopAmnesia and this is after learning a lesson about not letting your personal issues get to you]]), Haruto left the party ''yet again'' due to a vaguely mentioned complex about his ninja family, Ryuuhou actually follows ''him'' instead of helping escorting Aria, and [[spoiler:Kouga nearly calling it quits after Eden takes Aria from him and Yuna]]. The audience probably have done a Cosmo-powered FacePalm. |
| 133 | * MagicMeteor: [[spoiler: A meteor of darkness Cosmo was summoned by Medea to Earth in the middle of the first war against Mars, [[NextTierPowerUp upgrading everyone's Cloths]] and giving them ElementalPowers. Sadly, it also upgraded Mars's Galaxy, making him even more powerful than before. The incident also lead to the infant Kouga and Aria inheriting their darkness and light Cosmo from the meteor and Athena, respectively.]] |
| 134 | * MacGuffin: Starting with episode 13 we are introduced to the Cosmo Crystals. |
| 135 | * MeaningfulFuneral: One is held for [[spoiler:Libra Genbu]] after his HeroicSacrifice. The main characters don their old Palaestra uniforms, despite having already graduated, as he had been put in charge of the institution and died protecting it. |
| 136 | * MillionMookMarch: Used in the first season [[spoiler: by Mars and Medea to keep Aries Kiki from joining up with the Bronze Saints in marching up the new Sanctuary.]] |
| 137 | * {{Mooks}}: Crop up only rarely in the first season - the Martians and their Saint allies prefer to use individuals and small groups of elite operatives to get the job done. In Season 2, however, our heroes' new adversaries, the Pallasites, are much more fond of using their numbers as a weapon, and the Saints routinely have to face down a ZergRush and WeHaveReserves number of nameless Class-4 Pallasites alongside the tougher named ones. That said the number of Class-4 Pallasites are far greater and they on average are stronger than the average Steel Saint. |
| 138 | * MundaneUtility: Subverted in episode 16; the group tries to use its powers at a part-time job only to ruin things and freak out everyone. |
| 139 | * NoodlePeople: Several characters have this going, a testament of Yoshihiko Umakoshi's art style. |
| 140 | * NotSoDifferentRemark: |
| 141 | ** After Titan insults his resolve, Harbinger admits he's a ruffian and a violent criminal who deserves to die like a dog, and looking at it the way Titan does, not so different from the Pallasites that Athena and his fellow Gold Saints are fighting against. Athena and his fellow Gold Saints in turn reply that he's not so different from themselves, an honorable Saint worthy of his Cloth, as even with his viscious attitude, he now uses his might to defend the weak. |
| 142 | ** Something acknowledged by both Seiya and Titan is that they are both fighting for the person they love, not because they were ordered to, but on their own free will. One does not become a Saint for personal reasons, that's what is told in the original series, which explains Titan's surprise at Seiya's intentions. |
| 143 | -->'''Seiya''': The person I wanted to protect just so happened to be Athena. That's all there is to it. |
| 144 | * OfficialCouple: Ryuhou's existence confirms that Shiryuu X Shunrei is canon, at least in this particular universe. |
| 145 | * OlderAndWiser: Geki, who went from and early (and comparatively easy) opponent for Seiya in the Galaxian Wars tournament to an instructor at Palaestra. [[ButtMonkey Ichi]]... not so much. |
| 146 | ** The same for original group from the series. Seiya is much more calm when fighting. |
| 147 | * OlderThanTheyLook: Due the artstyle you wouldn't say that many of the returning characters are in their mid-thirties to forties. This is a notable inverse of... |
| 148 | ** YoungerThanTheyLook: The mantle the originals carried in their series now belongs to the new characters. For proof... ''Haruto is only 13 years old.'' |
| 149 | * OutOfFocus: Ryuho and Haruto get the short end of the stick when it comes to screentime, disappearing for entire episodes with little to no explanation at all. |
| 150 | ** After episode 18, Souma starts to lose focus too, and his role as Kouga's right hand man is given to [[SpotlightStealingSquad Yuna]] for the rest of the season. In the second season however, everyone's screentime is more balanced. |
| 151 | ** {{Justified|Trope}} in Haruto's case by basically being a ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' character in Saint form. |
| 152 | * ParentalAbandonment: Following ''Saint Seiya'''s tradition, most of the main characters are parentless in some way or another. So far the only exception is Ryuhou, with both biological parents known and alive, and that's because Shiryu and Shunrei's {{Plot Armor}}s are sturdier than Gold Cloths. |
| 153 | ** Lets list it, Kouga [[spoiler: was probably abandoned when the meteorite carrying Abzu came]], Aria [[spoiler: probably the same for her]], Souma only had a father and he was killed [[spoiler:by Sonia]], Haruto [[spoiler: also only had a father, who has more or less disowned him for becoming a saint]], Yuna's [[spoiler:parents were killed in a war that devastated her hometown]] and the Eden, [[spoiler: dear God, Eden, he loses pretty much everything. In the start of the series he had his mother, father and stepsister... Too bad they were a family of evil. He first lost his childhood friend Aria to his father, then his stepsister who he loved deeply died in battle. He and Kouga beat his father, only for his mother to kill his father. And his mother gave her life to save his]]. |
| 154 | * PassingTheTorch: One of the main premises of the series. The previous generation of Bronze Saints, led by none other than Seiya himself, pass on their duty as protectors of Athena to a new generation. |
| 155 | ** Seiya, as the former bearer of the Pegasus Cloth, passes the torch on to Kouga. |
| 156 | ** Ditto for Shiryu and his son Ryuuho. |
| 157 | * PowerCrystal: Now each Cloth has one, due crystal pendants being the new vessels for the cloths. They're officially called Cloth Stones. |
| 158 | * PowerMakesYourHairGrow: The Saints are drawn with longer, puffier hair when they are wearing their Cloths. In most cases the change is subtle, but Ichi's hair goes from barely going past his shoulders in civilian form, to reaching his waist as the Hydrus Saint. |
| 159 | * ThePsychoRangers: Pallas and her Pallasites are this to Athena and her Saints. |
| 160 | * PuttingTheBandBackTogether: The first mission Kouga gets in the second season is to gather all the Saints scattered throughout the world. Of course, the first names on his list are his former teammates'. |
| 161 | * RankUp: Sagittarius Seiya, it finally happened. |
| 162 | ** Apparently, as of episode 77, [[spoiler:Libra Shiryu]] happened as well. |
| 163 | * RealPlaceBackground: The design of the [[HeroAcademy Palaestra]] is based on France's Mont Saint-Michel. |
| 164 | ** [[SupervillainLair Pallasvelda]] is heavily modelled after Florence, and almost every episode set in the city features a recognizable builing or landmark. For example, Pallas' castle is Santa Maria del Fiore. |
| 165 | * RedShirtArmy: Along with its heavier use of {{Mooks}}, the second season reintroduces this in the form of the Steel Saints, young soldiers equipped with technological pseudo-Cloths who serve to bulk out the numbers of Athena's forces due to the massive casualties the war against Mars inflicted. As one Steel Saint irritably noted, they're at a disadvantage against even their opposite numbers, the similarly feeble Class-4 Pallasites. With the introduction of retired Saints donning Steel Cloths, this becomes better due to them being able to defeat Class-4 Pallasites with far greater ease. |
| 166 | * RedSkyTakeWarning: Twice in the first episode, announcing Mars's imminent arrival. |
| 167 | * {{Retool}}: Toei is openly taking liberties with ''Omega'', stating beforehand that it doesn't fit in Kurumada's canon, such changes being: |
| 168 | ** Rearranging some Cloth rankings like Aquila and Orion, orginally Silver Cloths that are now Bronze Cloths. |
| 169 | ** Expanding upon the requirements to be considered a true Athena Saint, originally by the time the trainees won the right to wear a Cloth, they were already considered as a qualified Saint ready to defend their god; ''Omega'' is making this only the halfway point, even with their Cloths in hand they must train more in Palaestra, only after graduating they will be treated as qualified Saints. |
| 170 | *** With the poor Hydra saint from the original series' time still being unable to graduate, as he still doesn't know how to use his ElementalPowers. It sounds even lamer considering one of the minor bronze saints is now his teacher. |
| 171 | * SealedGoodInACan: [[spoiler:Seiya himself turns out to be have been this after Mars beat him in Episode 10, revealed in Episode 50.]] |
| 172 | * SaveTheVillain: [[spoiler:Souma does this to Sonia in Episode 26. He claims it's because he's TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou... probably because '[[ItMakesSenseInContext I felt sorry for you after seeing you kill my dad]]' would sound ''really'' awkward.]] |
| 173 | ** [[spoiler:He tries it again during their final battle, but even awakening to the Seventh Sense isn't enough.]] |
| 174 | * ScarfOfAsskicking: It is pretty much everywhere. Every major badass has one from Seiya, to Eden. |
| 175 | * ShipTease: Seiya and Saori get it in episodes 51 and 53. |
| 176 | * ShoutOut: Aquila has a number of quirks from another one of Umakoshi's creations - Itsuki Myoudoin/Cure Sunshine of ''Anime/HeartcatchPrettyCure''. |
| 177 | ** Kouga vs Ryuho is a straight-up ShoutOut to Seiya vs Shiryu, [[spoiler: though with a different outcome.]] |
| 178 | ** Until now the Babel Tower Arc has a lot in common with the Poseidon Arc from the original. |
| 179 | ** [[spoiler: The battle between Yuna and Pavlin has shades of Hyoga Vs Camus. With the teacher facing their respective student to test their resolution in protecting Athena and if they have what it takes to carry on, the main difference is that the former has both ending up killing themselves and in this one is... [[NeverFoundTheBody more ambiguous]]]]. |
| 180 | ** [[spoiler:Hyoga himself later appears and give Kouga a chance to increase his power, at the risk of being frozen forever. Truly the disciple have become the master, because Hyoga himself once undergo the same treatment from his master... ''and failed''.]] |
| 181 | ** [[spoiler: Genbu, the new Libra Saint, is named after the [[TheFourGods Northern Turtle]]]] |
| 182 | ** In episode 53, Souma channels [[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam Domon Kasshu]]: "My soul is burning! It tells me to defeat you!" |
| 183 | ** In episode 55, Haruto wears clothes that are really similar to [[Series/KamenRiderWizard another Haruto]] |
| 184 | * ShownTheirWork: Mars' Tower of Babel looks like the one in [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tower_of_Babel_%28Bruegel%29 Bruegel's painting]], plus extra colorful lighting. |
| 185 | * TheSmurfettePrinciple: Aquila Yuna is the sole female among the Bronze Boys. She's also the only girl to qualify for the Saint Fight tournament. |
| 186 | * SortingAlgorithmOfEvil: Shot straight to hell. Team Kouga's first battles against Mars's forces don't just pitch them against regular {{Mooks}}, but [[spoiler:[[TheJuggernaut Gold Saints]]]] and even the big guy himself. Needless to say, [[CurbStompBattle it rarely ends well]]. |
| 187 | * SpellMyNameWithAnS: Being that it uses to Japanese language symbols as opposed to alphabetical letters, the show's Toei Animation website spells all non-Japanese character names the way the Japanese would actually pronounce them. |
| 188 | * SpinOffspring: In a lesser extent than most examples, though, as only one of the new Bronze Saints is an actual offspring. |
| 189 | * SpiritAdvisor: Seiya to Kouga. He mentors the new Pegasus Saint the basic of Cosmo Energy from beyond, or from wherever he is now. |
| 190 | * SpoilerOpening: The third opening shows a fully grown-up Pallas, and a mysterious character among the Class-1 Pallasites. |
| 191 | ** The fourth opening is far worse in this regard, showing [[spoiler: Kouga and Seiya's new Cloths, Pallas' Chronotector, Tokisada's return as a Pallasite, Subaru's true identity, and the Athena Exclamation between Fudo, Kiki and Shiryu.]] |
| 192 | * TheSpartanWay: Palaestra seems to be a departure from this method as seen the original story. Budding Saints still go through their own TrainingFromHell, but by the looks of things [[NoEndorHolocaust children aren't dying by the]] [[InferredHolocaust boatloads when they fail to live up to the standards set]]. |
| 193 | * SuperheroSchool: The Palaestra [[spoiler:was originally supposed to be this]]. |
| 194 | * TerraForm: [[spoiler: Mars goal is to turn the planet UsefulNotes/{{Mars}} into a new earth. With Athena becoming part of the WorldTree that will grow upon it.]] |
| 195 | * ThemeMusicPowerUp: In episode 7, and 51. |
| 196 | * TinTyrant: Mars. |
| 197 | * TitleDrop: In the second-to-last episode: |
| 198 | -->'''Kouga''': '' As long as someone is there to carry it on, the legend of Manga/SaintSeiya will live on!'' |
| 199 | * TournamentArc: The Saint Fight. [[spoiler:Gets rudely interrupted by the ''real'' plot before it even reaches the finals.]] |
| 200 | * TransformationSequence: You gotta have a cool scene showing the saints putting on their cloth! |
| 201 | * TransformationTrinket: Crystal pendants replaced the urns as the vessel for the cloths in the first season. |
| 202 | * UnderestimatingBadassery: Comes with being a bronze (or steel) saint. In a show where the bronze saints are the main heroes and the previous main bronze saints reached a ''legendary'' status, understimate a bronze from the main (or past main) cast is stupid, to say the least. |
| 203 | * UnwittingPawn: |
| 204 | ** [[spoiler:What Aria's role ultimately amounts to.]] |
| 205 | ** [[spoiler: As well as the Saints who don't know Mars' true agenda and think he's trying to protect Athena.]] |
| 206 | *** [[spoiler: even Mars and his loyal followers who want to create a better world are this to Medea.]] |
| 207 | *** [[spoiler: And then there's Medea herself, [[EvilIsNotAToy mistakenly thinking she can control]] the God of Darkness Abzu.]] |
| 208 | * {{Weird M|oon}}ars: While Mars is slightly smaller than Earth, here it appears to only be about the size of the moon. |
| 209 | * WhamEpisode: Episode 8. [[spoiler: With Sanctuary's "Athena" revealed to be an impostor, Palaestra ultimately just a front to train Saints to serve Mars, the headmaster one of his worshipers, and the entire school being taken over in the last stretch of it.]] |
| 210 | ** Around episode 40, Mars had finally [[spoiler: realized the error of his ways and it looks like he's going to stop the destruction of earth, it proves too late and earth's cosmo goes to Mars]]. |
| 211 | ** Episode 48, which includes [[spoiler: Koga finally finding his adoptive mother Saori, but falling victim to an illusion of her getting killed by Medea which allows her to get the god of darkness Abzu to posses him. He kills Amor and promptly moves towards Athena]]. |
| 212 | ** Episode 49, [[spoiler: Abzu manages to curse everyone with the same corruption that causes those who burn their cosmo to be engulfed by darkness, and Eden's plan to use Aria's staff to cleanse Koga of Abzu fails miserably, with Aria's staff being broken and thrown into a seemingly bottomless pit.]] Then [[spoiler: Medea sacrifices herself to make sure that Abzu's attack does not kill Eden. Abzu then continues on her merry way to murder Athena]]. |
| 213 | * WorthyOpponent: [[spoiler:Harbinger towards Kouga after the latter showed his {{Determinator}} credentials. Also Titan and Seiya towards each other. And before that Titan to Harbinger when he realizes Harbinger isn't just a thug.]] |
| 214 | * TheWorfEffect: Sagittarius Seiya to Mars, to show how menacing the new villain is. The former protagonist had to fight for his, Athena and baby Kouga's lives, one special attack from Mars was enough to destroy the arms piece from a Gold Cloth, and Seiya supposedly died fighting him. |
| 215 | ** [[spoiler: Abzu-possessed Koga]] manages to take out [[spoiler: Amor, someone strong enough to bring ''Eden'' to his knees, in a single punch.]] |
| 216 | * WorldHealingWave: Freeing the Earth Core resulted in barren farm land sprouting new life. |
| 217 | * WolverinePublicity: Phoenix Ikki appears in all opening sequences, but so far he hasn't shown up at all in the current timeline. |
| 218 | ** He finally returns in the episode 75 in all of his blazing glory. [[ADayInTheLimelight And this entire episode is about him.]] |
| 219 | * WritersCannotDoMath: There are only 88 constellations thus only 88 saints, but there seem to be hundreds of students at Palaestra, all of whom are implied to already have their cloths, as summed up by [[http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/122/4/1/sso__wtf___by_miss_jose-d4y8xgt.jpg this image]]. |
| 220 | ** Actually, this can be chalked up as a {{Retcon}}, as the show features characters whose cloths are based on obsolete/inactive constellations, as shown by one character who is referred to as the saint of the Reindeer (Rangifer) constellation, thus taking us beyond the 88 active constellations. |
| 221 | *** In episode 52, Kiki specifically says that the saints are of the 88 constellations. |
| 222 | *** Note, however, that other Cerberus Saints have been present at [[Manga/SaintSeiya other installments]] [[Manga/SaintSeiyaTheLostCanvas of the franchise]]. So, we may assume that at least some of the former constellations are among Athena's lines since day one. WordOfGod has also already stated that 88 is only a hypothetical number, meaning there might be many more Clothes out there from which we never heard of (the Clothes' Cemetery in Jamir did have an awful lot of abandoned Clothes, after all). |
| 223 | * YouShallNotPass: [[spoiler: Shaina, Ichi, Geki, Nachi, Ban, Ushio, Daichi, and Sho hold off the Class-4 Pallasites army while Athena and the main group enter Pallas Castle.]] |
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